Pilot Mountain

The drive up, only about 30 minutes from our house.

This past Saturday was PERFECT hiking weather! Scott, me, Addi, and Alex and Nyk Travis ventured out to Pilot Mountain to do only one thing...concur! It was just beautiful. The temperature was just right- we couldn't ask for anything better.

Out east it's called Pilot Mountin. However, we westerners would look at it and say, "You mean hill?" It's 1,400 feet above the valley floor, and we hiked 7.5 miles to the base of that dome. No one's allowed on top of it anymore due to it's habitat for birds. However there are plenty of other places to rock climb along the hike, which you'll see those pics in this post.

Our view of the Piedmont Valley for lunch at the top

The other side of our lunch spot

The dome from our lunch spot

Addi ate lunch on the ground. We had to protect her food from Cabo

At one of the look outs

Alex and her brother Nyk

Heading down the trail to loop the dome

I thought these steps were way cool.

"Warning: Injury or death can happen on this trail" hahaha At least that's what I pretended it said when we were on it, but only if you go off the trail. It was rated as strenuous.

There's no pictures of him, but there was another fearless hiker with us on this trail. And his name is CABO!!! He was a beast. He's an awesome trail dog because we can take him off his leash and he'll stay on the trail and stay with us. When people go by, he'd join them for a few steps and then back off to come back with us. He's a trooper!

On the strenuous trail, Addi just woke up before this shot.

On our hike down we saw a ton of rock climbers. We also decided for sure that we will not go hiking again unless we have a hiking bag for Addi. She was too heavy on the front side especially when going down hill. Scott and Nyk traded her off during our hike- but Scott had her 80% of the time. At the end of the day we were all hurting in all different places. After dinner and showers, we reconvened and watched Cowboys and Aliens and ate ice cream.